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Firebase Real Time Transit Data Sets

by templaedhel on 10/3/13, 4:43 AM with 8 comments

• by andreyf on 10/3/13, 5:18 AM

  The world is so full of data which updates in real-time. I hope Firebase focuses on publishing more data representing things in the real world that people can build on (using their API's, of course).

• by scottrblock on 10/3/13, 6:34 AM

  This is absolutely incredible! If I were going to an open hackathon this weekend, this on top of Firebase seems like such a great place to start.

  One small typo, if the Firebase team is reading, "College Park, MA" should be "College Park, MD" (Maryland, not Massachusetts)

• by asenna on 10/3/13, 6:44 AM

  This is really cool. With companies like Firebase, Layer, Parse (and many more that I can't remember right now), it is becoming incredibly easy to build awesome (complex) services in a matter of hours. Now imagine all this as the base and it will be really interesting to see what people are going to come up with.

  Great job!

• by mrcactu5 on 10/3/13, 2:17 PM

  For Bronx, NY what's the difference between using MTA's Bustime and Firebase's API? http://bustime.mta.info/

  It would be nice to have a JSON dump of all the Bronx bus data for the past week or even longer. Right now MTA shares historical data for one bus route over the course of 1 month in 2011. http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Developers/ArchiveData

• by chourobin on 10/3/13, 5:32 AM

  This is amazing! Props to the team at Firebase for putting this out there!

• by asmithmd1 on 10/3/13, 10:29 AM

  The transit data listed for Cambridge, MA also includes data for another city a little south of Cambridge. It has a funny name - spelled Boston but I think it is pronounced like Bahstin.

• by ludicast on 10/3/13, 4:47 PM

  Really cool. Would be nice to see firebase include way more of these types of sets (stocks, sports scores, trending news etc.).

  I need hipaa compliance so firebase doesn't work for my use cases, but have enjoyed the times I've played with it.